Sustainable Living: Understanding how it works if we want it to – Reality Check 4

Back on my soapbox today.  We are being thrust – note I didn’t use the words led or guided – into a global economic and technological future that is far beyond anything experienced by humanity within any of its recorded history.  And the harm done to the health of humanity Read more

Sustainable Living: Understanding how it works if we want it to – Reality Check 3

“This isn’t sustainable, but sustainability was never the goal. The goal was maximizing efficiency and minimizing labor costs, and by that measure, the system works perfectly” Mona Lazar. Through this blog have been sounding the alarm for over 8 years now.  Maybe it’s time for some proverbial standing on a Read more

Becoming different – Part 6: Coming to Terms with Artificial Intelligence (AI) – The Social Credit System?

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals.  The combination is unstable and self-destroying” Arthur C. Clarke.  When I was teaching my university environmental Studies introduction class, many of the students named it the ‘doom and gloom’ class because of Read more

Becoming different – Part 5: Coming to Terms with Artificial Intelligence – Overview

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” This is a great line from the movie, The Usual Suspects.  Without giving the story line away, it is a great story about how people get bamboozled.  Today, the mainstream media and the corporate systems Read more